AFL Tipping

Australians love their footy and they love their tipping. Each AFL season brings new competition to the table and new tipping competitions amongst friends, family, neighbours, and colleagues. Tipping in each round of the AFL competition is a chance to show off your footy knowledge, expertise and allows you to bring home bragging rights each time you score the correct tip.

AFL Tipping Competitions

AFL Tipping is done many different ways. From traditional tipping win-draw-win selection formats, like the free to enter Million Dollar Tipping competition from Sportsbet, through to online fantasy tipping rounds with player trades that allows you to build your very own Fantasy AFL Footy team.

Tipping on the AFL is a fun way to engage in the competition and have some friendly rivalry and of course banter, amongst classmates, friends, office co-workers, and family members.

The start of the AFL season is the best time to take a closer look at how teams are lining-up. Our tip… Get in the know early so you’ve got a better chance at taking on the tipping competition. You never know what fun facts are going to make all the difference to a team’s performance.

As listed above, there’s plenty of tipping sites around, including the Herald Sun tipping competition and ESPN Footy Tips website that can help you get involved throughout the footy season. Be sure to check out AussieFooty.com.au for up-to-date team lists for information on how each team is looking for the season.

This is also where you can keep an eye on that all important AFL Ladder and keep an eye on which teams are making the top 8 their home throughout the footy season.

Factors That Influence The AFL Tipping Markets

The best tip you can take when betting on the AFL is to consider all the factors that influence the game or market you are tipping, keep an eye on how each element of the game affect the dynamics of a match and in turn the odds.

The smartest punters out there look at elements like the, weather, ground conditions, if the teams are playing home or away, whether a team has a poor wet ground record and individual player statistics.

All these things change the odds on a game and are really simple to find out online. If you take a few minutes before betting to look at factors including what players are injured or missing from a game, their past record against the particular rivals and player statistics you can really make some great money!

Tipping Your Team

We all love to get behind our favourite AFL team when having a bet, but remember, a biased punter doesn’t always make money.

Heaps of footy fans place big bets on the AFL club they barrack for, regardless of their chances of winning, this can lead to a painful experience over time.

It is important to place smart bets and back the team with the best chance of success. Tipping with the head, not the heart, of course, this doesn’t always mean the favourite in the market.

There is plenty of money to be made from backing underdogs in the AFL.

Often teams are at generous long-priced odds because they are playing a team higher up the ladder. Remember, ladder position isn’t everything and upsets are common place in the AFL. Considering all factors all often get you the best outcome, consider if there is value to be had in backing the underdogs and you could beat the bookies.

If your team doesn’t look like it has a chance of winning a certain game in the head-to-head markets, you can still win with through exotic bets.

Bookies like Ladbrokes.com.au have a whole range of exotic bets including markets on the first player to kick a goal, winning margin spreads and much more.

If you know your Aussie Rules and stats these markets can be a gold mine! For more on how to bet and win using the game and player statistics head to AFL Stats.

You should now feel confident that betting on the AFL is easy as long as you know how to best use your tips and read the markets.

So why not put your new knowledge into action and head to Ladbrokes.com.au to check out the latest AFL odds. Good luck!